A New Solution to Trump’s Relentless Attacks on the Environment

The NY Times article, Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots, exposes the efforts by Donald Trump’s EPA to undermine critical protections for communities from dangerous toxins like PFOA, TCE and the pesticide chlorpyrifos. As long as the EPA can make a defensible claim that it is acting in accord with existing laws, there is little to hold Trump’s EPA accountable short of Congress changing the laws, which clearly they are not inclined to do. But if we had a Green Amendment in our federal constitution that acknowledged and protected people’s inalienable rights to a healthy environment there could be a check on this misuse of power.

The same holds true for the many anti-environment government actions, laws, regulations and rollback efforts happening in states across the nation, which is why we need Green Amendments in every state constitution. A well written constitutional provision can provide a much needed check on governmental power, including the decisions causing environmental degradation that is poisoning peoples bodies and lives.

The Navajo Nation is not the only tribe that has historical and cultural ties to Chaco Canyon, as well as being preoccupied with battling the pandemic. Pueblo tribes consider Chaco Canyon as their anc...

Think about how health and medical problems that arise from living near a pollution plant would impact your family, finances, ability to work, learn, and grow, which impacts your family, finances, ability to work, learn, and grow, which yet again, impacts your family, finances, and ability to work, learn, and grow.

We had an off-air chat on Tuesday with former pro-fracker, Mark Lichty, about what made him change his mind on the industry and why he decided to go on and produce the film "Pennsylvania: A Fractured State". Maya and Mark discuss ways to grow the #GreenAmendment movement to protect our air and water from the fracking industry.